Philosopical Rhapsodies Fragments of Akbur of Betlis Containing Reflections
Philosopical Rhapsodies Fragments of Akbur of Betlis Containing Reflections
Richard Joseph Sulivan
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St. Dunftan arnufed himfelf with the devil, whom he could manage as he pleafed ; and one day, as the faid infernal fpirit went to take fome liberty with him, he feized him by the nofe with a pair of tongs, and chaflifed him to fuch a degree, that the devil would have no more to do with him. Various, and as ridiculous things are told of St. Anthony *s temptations in the wildernefs, and St. Do- minic amufiag himfeif with burning the Vol. Ill, R devi* 342 PHILOSOPHICAL RHAPSODIES; devil's claws wi...th a flambeau. We hava- it on record, that St. Hilarian was content with only four figs a day, and that after fun fet ; that St. Dorothy the Theban never lay down ; that St, Guingiilvis made two hundred genuflexions a day ; that St. Paul, the Anchoret, prayed three hundred times a day 5 that St. Polychroa faid his prayers with the root of a great oak upon his moulders ; that St. Baradat and St. Thalella bent themfelves quite double in a cage upon the point of a rock, and that St. Anthelmus gave hirn^ felf a thoufand lames a day.
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